How to remove the items in a list that are in a second list in python?

Question

I have a list of lists, and another list, and I want to remove all of the items from the list of lists that are in the second list.

first = [[1,3,2,4],[1,2],[3,4,2,5,1]]
to_remove = [1,2]

How would I go about doing this problem in general?

There are also similar questions on here but nothing has helped.

Answer 1

result = []
for l in first:
    tmp = []
    for e in l:
        if e not in to_remove:
            tmp.append(e)
    result.append(tmp)

print(result)

This code loop over all the list and all the element of each list if the element is in to_remove list it skip it and go to the next. so if you have multiple intance it will remove it

Best regard

Answer 2

An elegant solution using sets :

first = [[1,3,2,4],[1,2],[3,4,2,5,1]]
to_remove = [1,2]
result = [list(set(x).difference(to_remove)) for x in first]
result
[[3, 4], [], [3, 4, 5]]